US 12,240,362 B2
Seat cushion frame, vehicle seat frame, and vehicle seat
Syunichirou Osa, Yokohama (JP); Hiroki Matsuda, Yokohama (JP); Jun Shirai, Yokohama (JP); Masafumi Takano, Tokyo (JP); Fumito Kitanaka, Tokyo (JP); Kenji Nagumo, Tokyo (JP); and Suguru Ishikawa, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Yokohama (JP); and Subaru Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by NHK SPRING CO., LTD., Yokohama (JP); and SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/145,715.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-213145 (JP), filed on Dec. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0202362 A1, Jun. 29, 2023
Int. Cl. B60N 2/68 (2006.01); B60N 2/427 (2006.01); B60N 2/50 (2006.01)
CPC B60N 2/68 (2013.01) [B60N 2/42718 (2013.01); B60N 2/506 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A seat cushion frame configuring a framework of a seat cushion for an occupant of a vehicle to sit on, the seat cushion frame comprising:
left and right side frames disposed at left and right side portions of the seat cushion;
a cushion pan connecting upper end portions of front portions of the left and right side frames together in a seat left-right direction; and
a reinforcement member that includes left and right reinforcements portions respectively affixed to seat left-right direction sides of a rear end portion of the cushion pan so as to reinforce the sides to which the reinforcement portions are affixed,
wherein the reinforcement member does not reinforce a center portion of the seat left-right direction of the rear end portion of the cushion pan.